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Workers face worsening inequality without urgent reforms, UN agency warns

·November 2, 2025·1 min read

That is the warning outlined in a new assessment released on Friday by the UN International Labour Organization (ILO), which urges governments, employers and labour organizations to put dignity and workers’ rights at the centre of economic decision-making. “This report brings together the voices, experiences and proposals of trade unions...

Record rise in carbon dioxide levels during 2024: UN weather agency

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·October 15, 2025·1 min read

The surge was driven by continued human emissions, more wildfire activity and weakened absorption by land and ocean “sinks” – a development that threatens to create a vicious climate cycle. Tripling since the 1960s The WMO’s latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that CO₂ growth rates have tripled since the 1960s,...

Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns

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·October 13, 2025·2 min read

According to the agency’s latest surveillance report, antibiotic resistance rose in more than 40 per cent of the bacteria-drug combinations tracked between 2018 and 2023, with average annual increases ranging from 5 to 15 per cent. “Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,”...

Air pollution is on the rise – but not everywhere, says UN weather agency

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·September 5, 2025·2 min read

“Air quality respects no boundaries,” said Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “The smoke and the pollution that issues from the wildfires in this record-breaking season in the Iberian Peninsula has been detected over Western Europe already [and]…can travel basically throughout the rest of the European...

Health and aid workers targeted in conflicts around the world, UN agency says

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·August 23, 2025·6 min read

Attacks against health facilities doubled between 2023 and 2024, and more than 900 health workers were killed last year, the agency reported. Humanitarian aid workers were also killed in record numbers in 2024. Yet, 2025 is outpacing even these dark statistics at a time when funding for humanitarian work is...

‘By women, for women’: 15 years of the UN agency championing gender equality

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·July 29, 2025·4 min read

This is just one way that the de facto authorities have restricted women and girls’ fundamental rights. Today, Afghanistan has the second largest gender gap in the world after Yemen. “Sometimes I wonder how to remain hopeful in these dark circumstances,” said Fariba, whose name was changed to protect her....

Deep-sea must not turn into ‘Wild West’ of rare minerals exploitation, agency head says

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·July 25, 2025·3 min read

Marking its 30th anniversary, ISA is the world’s authority on the deep-sea beyond national jurisdiction. Washington may have passed an order on deep-sea licensing in international waters earlier this year, but the authority’s chief Leticia Carvalho said the United States, which is not an ISA member, “is going at it...

‘Catastrophic birth outcomes’ in Gaza threaten a whole generation, warns UN agency

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·July 24, 2025·2 min read

In the first half of 2025, only 17,000 births were recorded, according to Gazan health authorities, representing a 41 per cent decline in Gaza’s birth rate over the past three years, the agency said. “Every mother and child deserves the right to a safe birth and a healthy start to...

Aid cuts leave refugee agency unable to shelter six in 10 fleeing war in Sudan

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·July 18, 2025·3 min read

Globally, $1.4 billion of the agency’s programmes are being shuttered or put on hold, UNHCR said in a new report. “We can’t stop water, you can’t stop sanitation, but we’re having to take decisions when it comes, for example, to shelter,” said UNHCR Director of External Relations Dominique Hyde. “We’re...

Ukraine: UN refugee agency helps repair homes amid ongoing conflict

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·July 9, 2025·1 min read

In the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, housing remains one of the country’s most urgent humanitarian and recovery challenges. The destruction has been widespread and ongoing. According to the latest Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, 13 per cent of Ukraine’s housing stock has been damaged since February...

Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports

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·July 1, 2025·1 min read

Loneliness is linked to approximately 100 deaths every hour – more than 871,000 deaths annually. By contrast, strong social connections are associated with better health and longer life, the UN health agency said on Monday. WHO defines social connection as the ways in which people relate to and interact with...

Gaza: Israel ‘approaches UN’ to resume limited aid deliveries, says aid agency

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·May 19, 2025·2 min read

“We have been approached by Israeli authorities to resume limited aid delivery, and we are in discussions with them now on how this would take place given the conditions on the ground,” OCHA said in a statement. It is now 11 weeks since the Israeli authorities closed off all food,...